ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,332, issued on March 17, was assigned to ARCADE STUDIO INC. (San Francisco).

"Input preprocessing for generating images of synthetic products" was invented by Andrew Carr (Springville, Utah), Hakan Gunturkun (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sida Li (San Francisco), Mariam Naficy (San Francisco) and Will Zhuk (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented technique for preprocessing user input to generate images of synthetic products representing conceptual products includes receiving user input, including text and/or images, indicative of a conceptual product, and selecting a machine learning (ML) model from a set of model...